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Blog
R Users Probably Don’t Need to Know OOP
r6
tidyverse
tidymodels
The R6 package, among others, brings forth the elegance of object-oriented programming (OOP) to a traditionally ‘stats first’ language. That said, do you need to know OOP to be a successful data scientist? No. Well, probably not!
Nov 22, 2023
Javier Orraca-Deatcu
webR via Quarto Extensions
webR
dplyr
webR has been on my mind recently… With the recent release of webR 0.2.0, it’s time to dive in!
Aug 23, 2023
Javier Orraca-Deatcu
Impressing Hiring Teams with a Shiny App Demo
tidyverse
shiny
renv
bslib
Last week, I presented to SoCal RUG on how to build a Shiny app demo as a resume or cover letter accessory. This ‘accessory’ will help impress hiring managers that you’re interviewing with and also differentiate you from other data science applicants.
Mar 28, 2023
Javier Orraca-Deatcu
R Goodies for 2023
tidymodels
probably
arrow
duckdb
sodium
cyphr
Despite all of the noise of AI-generated art and ChatGPT, 2022 was a great year for data science. These are some of my favorite tricks that I will continue to explore in 2023.
Jan 15, 2023
Javier Orraca-Deatcu
Data Science Hangout
tidyverse
shiny
machine learning
tidymodels
I was recently a guest on Posit’s Data Science Hangout, hosted by Rachael Dempsey, and I had a blast. This is the recording where I talked about my transition from Excel-based financial modeling to machine learning at scale with R.
Jan 1, 2023
Javier Orraca-Deatcu
Build a Shiny App Demo
shiny
github
bslib
docker
During my interview process with Bloomreach, I developed an interactive Shiny app styled with the Bloomreach branding and color scheme. This tutorial will help you do the same to demo the power of Shiny to prospective employers.
Nov 15, 2022
Javier Orraca-Deatcu
Torch for R + luz
machine learning
The ‘torch for R’ ecosystem is a collection of extensions for torch, an R framework for machine learning and artificial intelligence based on PyTorch.
Oct 22, 2021
Javier Orraca-Deatcu
Beautiful Maps with Rayshader
rayshader
ggplot2
visualizations
If you love beautiful 2D and 3D maps, now you can create your own with elevation data, the rayshader package, OpenStreetMap, and ggplot2.
Sep 7, 2021
Javier Orraca-Deatcu
A Brief History of the Dataframe
tibble
Insightful read sourced from Towards Data Science on the history of the dataframe - From its origins in the S programming language, to R, to pandas for Python (to the tibble for R).
May 24, 2021
Javier Orraca-Deatcu
DT: An R Interface to the JavaScript library DataTables
dt
The R package DT provides an R interface to the JavaScript library DataTables. R data objects (matrices or data frames) can be displayed as tables on HTML pages, and DataTables provides filtering, pagination, sorting, interactivity with Shiny, and many other features.
May 3, 2021
Javier Orraca-Deatcu
rstudio::global tips, tricks, and more
tidymodels
RStudio’s annual conference saw roughly 17,000 attendees for their first global, all-virtual, 24-hour event. I attended several sessions throughout the day and I’ll highlight my favorite data bytes learned that day. I’ll also share relatable content for better modeling with R.
Jan 24, 2021
Javier Orraca-Deatcu